Lecture presented by Craig Smith to the SWEN302 Agile Methods class at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in September 2012

1. Going
All
On Your Business
Craig
Smith

2. Welcome
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3. Agile
Anyone?
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4. Agile
Defined
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5. Raccoon!
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6. So many
flavours!
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7. 80% 40% We have
of IT Organisations* of all Organisations* crossed
the chasm
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* according to Gartner

8. Days!
Happy
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9. crowd…
We have
sorted the IT
development
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10. areas…
always so
We are not
good in other
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11. Why is
all this
important?
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12. Knowledge
Economy
Source: http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/internet/using-technology-to-improve-workforce-collaboration
Production
15%
Knowledge
47%
Transaction
38%
Projected Types of Workers, share of US workforce (2011)

13. Economy
Knowledge
90%
Knowledge
10%
Transaction
Types of workers (Financial Industry)
Source: http://www.apo-tokyo.org/00e-books/IS-02_TrainingKnowledgeWorkers/IS-02_TrainingKnowledgeWorkers.pdf

14. Agile
Industrial
Revolution
Information
Forrester Research 2012
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15. Let’s
ponder
the Agile
Manifesto
Responding to
change
over
following a
plan

16. And the
underlying
principles
Build projects
around motivated
individuals.
Give them the
environment and
support they need,
and trust them to
Our highest priority
get the job done.
is to satisfy the
Agile processes customer
promote sustainable through early and
development. The continuous delivery
sponsors, developers, of valuable software.
and users should be
able to maintain a
constant pace
indefinitely.
17

17. Change
software
to
solutions
Responding to
change
over
following a
plan

18. XP is:
Extreme Programming
Extreme (Software) Projects
Extreme Process
Extreme Practices
Extreme Passion (People)
Extreme Payback (Profit)

19. Projects
(Software)
XP: Extreme
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20. Water Scrum Fall
Upfront project Iterative and Controlled,
planning adaptive infrequent
process that approach to production
typically achieving the release cycle
happens overall plan that that is governed
between IT and was first laid by
the business. out in the organizational
'Water' stage. policy and
infrastructure
Water- limitations
Scrum-Fall

21. projects
IT projects
are business
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22. Process
XP: Extreme
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23. mostly
translate
processes
Our current
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24. Scrum
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25. eXtreme
Programmming
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26. Kanban
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27. Kanban is
everywhere
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28. work &
queues
Kanban
reactive
good for
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29. Scrum,
Kanban
evolve to
Start with
Scrumban:
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30. “…broke the rules, challenged the bureaucratic system that stifled
innovation and hindered progress; spelled out 14 rules and practices." 1943
Skunkworks
at Lockheed
Martin
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33. “…strives for the absolute elimination of waste, overburden and
unevenness to allow members to work smoothly and efficiently.” 1948
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Toyota
Production
System
(Lean)

35. Lean
Startup
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36. Build
Learn
Measure
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37. XP:
Extreme
Practices
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38. XP
Practices
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39. Invest the time if the solution is important!
Avoid signoffs and handoffs Onsite
Customer
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40. React to inevitable changes
Adaptive planning techniques
Planning
Game

41. Metaphor
Understand the problem
Elevator pitch, vision box, as-is / to-be map
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40 Hour
Week Sustainable pace
Timeboxing or continuous flow

43. Refactoring
Safe to fail environment
Build modular and by value/risk
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44. Simple statements and documentation
Simple solutions
Simple
Design
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45. Pair
Programming
Wisdom of the crowd
Pair for cross skilling and better solutions
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46. Testing
Build quality in
Understand your definition of done first
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47. Story
Card

48. Acceptance
Criteria

49. Small iterative cycles
Short Release often
Releases
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50. Windows 7
Deployment

51. Make Your
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Progress Visible

52. Standardisation
Self empowered decision making
Coding
Standards
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53. Working as a team
Product centric model
Collective
Ownership

54. Integrate with other teams, including IT
Continuous Always have a solution you can showcase
Integration
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55. XP:
Passion
Extreme
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56. Break
Culture
Existing
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57. Drive
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58. Extreme
HR
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Netflix has no vacation policy or tracking!
“There is no clothing policy at Netflix, but no one
has come to work naked lately.” (Patty McCord, Netflix)

59. Reviews
Performance
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60. Are your
technical
resources
craftsman?
61
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61. Manifesto for
Software
Craftsmanship

62. Payback
XP: Extreme
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63. motivation?
What is your
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64. Beyond Budgeting
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66. Agile
Marketing
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67. Extreme
Governments
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68. Extreme
Manufacturing

69. Wikispeed

70. Wrap Up
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71. XP is:
Extreme Programming
Extreme (Software) Projects
Extreme Process
Extreme Practices
Extreme Passion (People)
Extreme Payback (Profit)

72. Suncorp Group includes leading general insurance,
banking, life insurance, superannuation and
investment brands in Australia and New Zealand.
The Group has around 16,000 employees and
Thankyou
relationships with nine million customers. It is a Top
25 ASX listed company with over $95 billion in
assets. Suncorp has five core businesses: Personal
Insurance; Commercial Insurance; Vero New
Zealand; Suncorp Bank and Suncorp Life. These are
supported by corporate and shared services
divisions.
(http://www.suncorp.com.au)
Craig Smith
http://www.suncorp.com.au
http://www.craigsmith.id.au
craig.smith@suncorp.com.au
craig@craigsmith.id.au Questions?
@smithcdau